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Article: Children of the Father King: youth, authority, and legal minority in colonial lima.(Book review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- June 22, 2008
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Children of the Father King: Youth, Authority, and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima. By Bianca Premo (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xiii plus 350 pp. $24.95).
This path-breaking study provides a social history of childhood in colonial Lima from approximately 1650 until 1820. Relying largely on census data, notarial records, laws, and legal cases, Premo examines the lives of children in homes, schools, and institutions, arguing that patriarchal authority in the home was replicated in the role of the king (through the colonial courts) as the "father" of all his subjects. By the eighteenth century, the centralizing policies of the Bourbon ...
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